FBI Check the Murdoch Company

WASHINGTON - Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) United States launched an investigation into Rupert Murdoch's company, News Corp., after a report that the firm's employees may have been trying to tap phone conversations and voice mails from survivors, families of victims killed and victims of the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, said a federal law enforcement told CNN on Thursday (14/07/2011) local time.

"We knew the allegations were and are in depth," said the source, who asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the investigation. "We're steeped anyone acting for or on behalf of News Corp., from top management down to the janitors," to gather information and determine whether there has been a violation of law. The source said, because the investigation has just begun, it is still too early to say when the first interviews will be conducted. To be sure, he said, such an inspection is a "high priority".

Peter T. King, Republican lawmakers from the New York area, earlier this week, has asked FBI Director Robert Mueller, to investigate the possibility of the journalists who worked for the Murdoch-owned media have been tapping phones of victims and relatives of victims of September 11 or often referred to 9 / 11.

Party News Corp. on Thursday said no comment on the investigation into the FBI or the possibility of a hearing with the U.S. Congress.

Concerns the practice of wiretapping by the Murdoch-owned media group in the U.S., as revealed by the media group that has been done in England, apparently can be traced from a report published in The Mirror, a British tabloid newspaper on Wednesday. The tabloid quotes "a source" that refers to a former police officer who now works as a private investigator. "Penyilidik was used by many journalists in America and he recently told me that he had been asked to eavesdrop on private phone data victim 9 / 11," the source said, as reported to the media.

The source told The Mirror that the request came from the News of the World, one of Murdoch's media at the center of the phone tapping scandal in Britain and has been closed last Sunday. "He said that the journalists were asking for access to records that showed calls to and from mobile phones belonging to the victims and their families," wrote the tabloid.

"Allegations of him is that they want information so they can tap into the relevant ballot box (for their news), as it proved they had done in England."

Private investigator said he ignores the job. He knows how insensitivity such research and how bad the impact of it. Investigators said the journalists seem to be very interested to get the phone records of the victims who came from England. "

The families of the victims of the terrorist attack was furious over the possibility of phone-tapping of journalists have been victims. "That's really unethical, unprofessional and basically criminal," said Jim Riches, a retired deputy chief of the New York Fire Department who lost a son in the attack, as quoted by CNN. Sally Regenhard, who also lost a son in the attack, calling it a "very terrible that the terms of privacy and personal security can be breached in such a horrible way."

Democratic Senator Frank Lautenberg, of New Jersey said the families of the victims the attacks of September 11 has "suffered enough" and demand answers.

The pressure to conduct a federal investigation of Murdoch's media empire grew when a key member of the House oversight committee called on Congress to explore allegations that one of Murdoch's companies are based in the U.S. may have violated the laws of anti-bribery and a number of other laws.

News of the World, a tabloid owned by Murdoch in the UK who have aged past 168 years and a circulation of 2.5 million copies, was closed last Sunday amid allegations that the journalists of illegally intercepting phone messages belong to murder victims, victims of terrorists, politicians and celebrities.